[The Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions]
[Department of the Interior Semiannual Regulatory Agenda]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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Part VIII





Department of the Interior





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Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DOI)






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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

25 CFR Ch. I

30 CFR Chs. II and VII

36 CFR Ch. I

43 CFR Subtitle A, Chs. I and II

48 CFR Ch. 14

50 CFR Chs. I and IV

Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior.

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the semiannual agenda of rules scheduled 
for review or development between fall 2009 and spring 2010. The 
Regulatory Flexibility Act and Executive Order 12866 require 
publication of the agenda.

ADDRESSES: Unless otherwise indicated, all Agency Contacts are located 
at the Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 
20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You should direct all comments and 
inquiries about these rules to the appropriate Agency Contact. You 
should direct general comments relating to the agenda to the Office of 
Executive Secretariat, Department of the Interior, at the address above 
or at 202-208-3181.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: With this publication, the Department 
satisfies the requirement of Executive Order 12866 that the Department 
publish an agenda of rules that we have issued or expect to issue and 
of currently effective rules that we have scheduled for review.

    Simultaneously, the Department meets the requirement of the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) to publish an 
agenda in April and October of each year identifying rules that 
will have significant economic effects on a substantial number of 
small entities. We have specifically identified in the agenda rules 
that will have such effects.

    For this edition of the Department's regulatory agenda, we have 
included the most important significant regulatory actions in the 
Regulatory Plan, which appears in part II of today's Federal 
Register. The Table of Contents below lists the Regulatory Plan 
entries and denotes them by a bracketed bold reference that directs 
the reader to the appropriate Sequence Number in part II.

 John A. Strylowski,

Federal Register Liaison Officer.

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389         Revised Requirements for Well Plugging and Platform Decommissioning...................    1010-AD61
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Department of the Interior (DOI)                    Proposed Rule Stage


Minerals Management Service (MMS)



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389.  REVISED REQUIREMENTS FOR WELL PLUGGING AND 
PLATFORM DECOMMISSIONING

Legal Authority: 31 USC 9701; 43 USC 1334

Abstract: This rule would establish timely submission requirements for 
decommissioning and abandonment plans, and establish deadlines for 
decommissioning permits. The rule would also implement timeframes and 
clarify requirements for plugging and abandonment of idle wells and 
decommissioning idle facilities.

Timetable:
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Action                            Date                      FR Cite

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NPRM                            02/00/10
NPRM Comment Period End         04/00/10

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes

Agency Contact: William Hauser, Department of the Interior, Minerals 
Management Service, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, VA 20170
Phone: 703 787-1613
Fax: 703 787-1546
Email: [email protected]

RIN: 1010-AD61
[FR Doc. E9-28601 Filed 12-04-09; 8:45 am]
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